Acampe praemorsa

Acampe praemorsa (Roxb.) Blatt. & McCann

Botanical name: 

Acampe praemorsa (Roxb.) Blatt. & McCann; (Family Orchidaceae).

Synonyms: 

Acampe excavata Lindl.; Acampe papillosa (Lindl.) Lindl.; Acampe wightiana (Lindl. ex Wight) Lindl.; Cymbidium praemorsum (Roxb.) Sw.; Epidendrum praemorsum Roxb.; Gastrochilus papillosus (Lindl.) Kuntze; Gastrochilus praemorsus (Roxb.) Kuntze; Rhynchostylis papillosa (Lindl.) Heynh.; Saccolabium papillosum Dalzell & A.Gibson; Saccolabium papillosum Lindl.; Saccolabium praemorsum (Roxb.) Hook.f.; Saccolabium wightianum (Lindl. ex Wight) Hook.f.; Sarcanthus papillosus (Lindl.) Tixier; Sarcanthus praemorsus (Roxb.) Lindl. ex Spreng.; Sarcochilus praemorsus (Roxb.) Spreng.; Vanda fasciata Gardner ex Lindl.; Vanda wightiana Lindl. ex Wight

Description: 

An epiphytir plant. Stem elongate, branched, seandent, rallier slender, leaves oblong to narrowly oblong, coriaceous. 7-15cm long. 1-2cm broad, slightly emarginate at apex. Inflorescences lateral, short, densely many-flowered: (lowers 1—1,5cm across; sepals and petals yellow with brown spots; lip white with purplish spots at the base: sepals oblong, 5—8mm long. 2—2.5mm broad; petals narrow ly oblong. 5— 8mm long. 1.5—2mm broad; lip 4—5mm long, suhsaceate at base, pubescent in lower half: apieal lobe ovate, 3.5—4 mm long. 2—3mm broad, erose-margined, densely papillose above; spur cylindrical-oblong. 2—2.5mm long. 1.5—2mm broad, obtuse at the tip.

Acampe praemorsa (Roxb.) Blatt. & McCann, Photo by 蘇清記

Flowering period: 

November. Habitat: on tree trunks in forests or on die edge of forests: all. 700m.

Distribution: 

Hainan and W Yunnan: also Nepal. Bhutan. Sikkim. India. Myanmar. Vietnam. Laos and Thailand.

REFERENCES

Chen Singchi rsi Zhanhuo Luo Yilx ((2008)), NATIVE ORCHIDS OF CHINA IN COLOUR

The Plant List 2013